I only used THREE fabrics for this one! Just three! Not scrappy at all – and I followed the pattern. It was fun playing with a more neutral color palette for this one.

This purple ring fabric was the most exciting of the bunch. I used this fabric for the curtains in Cedi’s Chocolate Shop in our apple store and thought it would be fun to base this quilt on the fabric.

The other two fabrics are more neutral but the theme of the circles are carried throughout each of the fabrics.

Happy Friday everyone! I’m excited to be announcing the winner of the Fabrics N Quilts Giveaway which celebrated my ‘Sewing with Nancy’ debut!

113 comments were made and random.org chose …

Congrats to Dawn Frisch!

I've watched Sewing with Nancy for years! I love her show and can't wait to see the new season. My favorite show was when she celebrated 30 years on TV and she went behind the scenes showing us what happens behind the camera. That was so interesting. Happy sewing Dawn

Happy Wednesday everyone! Can you believe we’re 39 weeks into 2013!? That means we’re three fourths of the way through the year – and three fourths of the way through our 52 Twisted Tradition block! Today I’m super excited to be welcoming Kimberly Jolly of the Fat Quarter Shop as the guest blogger! Before we see her ‘twisted’ block – let’s find out a little bit more about her!
Find Kimberly Jolly of Fat Quarter Shop online!

What is your favorite thing about Quilt Alongs?
The excitement of seeing the next block or part of the quilt! And also seeing how everyone’s quilts are all unique and fabulous.What type of quilter do you consider yourself - traditional, modern, contemporary, other...?
I am mostly traditional, but starting to embrace the modern.What other quilt alongs are you participating in in 2014?FQS’s Wishes Quilt-Along and I just finished the Sew Scandi Quilt AlongApples or oranges?
Orange JUICEFavorite Book:
No favorite book, but I love books about true crime!
Now let’s see the twisted block!
Red Bird, Blue Skies
Seriously!? How adorable is this block!!!!!?
Head on over to the Fat Quarter Shop’s blog to download the tutorial so you can make you’re very own Red Bird, Blue Skies Quilt Block! This was twisted from the tradition 'sickle' block!

I can’t wait to see what all your blocks look like! Be sure to share you blocks and any projects you make using your blocks onto our flickr group: 52 Blocks Quilt Along
Hashtag: #52bTT

I love taking photographs that I then crop to make great images for fabrics. Brilliant, vibrant color combined with fun geometric design is what I look for. Here are two options of fabrics from the same photograph – just at different scales …

I found a few minutes as the caramel melted and the grease warmed up to sneak into my sewing room. I’m IN LOVE with the September Aurifil Block designed by Pat Wys. I only made one at this point – but I’m pretty sure in the end I’m going to have four of these – one for each corner. Wouldn’t this just frame out a sampler perfectly!?

And here are all nine of my blocks so far! Can’t wait to see what October has in store!

I’ve talked about Ashley to you all before – she makes my most favorite pillow ever – “But Seriously, Let’s Make Out” and then my second favorite pillow ever – “Maybe Later”. I’m just so excited for her and love seeing amazing things happen to amazing people!

To help her make it to the top – head over to HERE and place your vote for her! And now – let’s find out a little more about her in a mini interview I did with her … (PS – you get 6 votes/day and quilter, Heather Jones, is also a finalist! Yeah Heather!!!)

How did you initially get started selling on Martha Stewart?

I initially got started selling with Martha Stewart online by sheer luck and being in the right place at the right time. I was contacted by one of their editors out of the blue! When I asked how they had come across my products, they said 'one of our editors saw them at a show in NYC'. Well, I hadn't done any shows in NYC, and the only place that had featured my pillows in the city was STORY - a pop-up shop in Chelsea. STORY had also contacted me out of the blue because they had seen my products at a feature that BRIKA had done in Manhattan, and BRIKA found me through Etsy. Etsy has really been amazing for me!

How did it feel to find out you were nominated? How did making it into the finals make you feel?

Being nominated and becoming a finalist has been exhilarating. I am so proud, and honored, and thrilled to have been chosen as a finalist - and it's still sinking in! The level of talent out there in the world is continually inspiring and I am constantly in awe of what people are doing. To be chosen as a finalist alongside some of my professional role-models is ridiculously flattering.

What is your top selling pillow phrase?

The current top-selling pillow phrase is "Let Her Sleep, For When She Wakes She Will Move Mountains" - I think a lot of people are buying it as a gift for baby girls - it was also featured in a recent Martha Stewart Email about great gifts for new parents, so I think that has been driving it more too. (Our other most popular quote is "But seriously, let's make out" - for obvious reasons!)

What is your personal favorite pillow phrase?

My personal favorite pillow phrase is "Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can" because I constantly am putting up mental road-blocks, but this phrase reminds me that anything can be accomplished with what's on-hand. (That's actually how Casa & Co. started too!)

Check out all of Ashley’s pillows on her etsy site here and don’t forget to place for your vote(s) HERE! Congrats Ashley!

Directions

Layout the four 2.5” green squares and the five 2.5” brown squares in the placement shown above.

Sew them together into a 9 patch. Place it on the diagonal on your design wall.

Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of your 3” background square.

Place the 3” background square right sides together with one of the 3” tree fabric squares (green). Stitch a quarter inch seam on both sides of the line you drew.

Cut along the line. Press toward the darker fabric.

Line up two squares so they ‘kiss at the seam.

Square the half square triangles down to 2.5” squares. Repeat this with the remaining 3” background fabrics with the 3” tree fabric. You will have 24 HSTs when you are finished.

Lay them out as shown above with the trunk fabric.

Sew each tree section together.

Cut your 7” background squares in half diagonally.

Layout the triangles on your design wall as shown above. Sew this all together by sewing into three diagonal strips first and then sewing the three strips together.---Okay – the first time I made this block I made it completely like the Kentucky Crossroads block would look like. Here’s what happened:Those pine trees really needed a top. I was going to be lazy and just leave it but my friend Trish said I should really add the tops for this block. So … here they are!---

GIVEAWAY!

To celebrate this – Shannon from Fabrics N Quilts offered to host a giveaway on my blog! Fabrics N Quilts is giving a $25 gift certificate to her shop – Fabrics N Quilts AND a Trace n Create Bag Template from Nancy Zieman.
In order to win just leave a comment below answering one simple question.

Do you watch Sewing with Nancy? If yes – do you have any great memories from her show? If no – do you watch any shows about sewing/quilting?

BONUS Entries Leave a separate comment for each to gain extra entries (7 more chances).

I love tweaking photographs into great fabrics that I can use in my quilts and projects! Today I’m going to share with you two new fabrics available at my spoonflower shop for you all to enjoy too!

Earlier in the year, Karmen Lindner Photography had a Matilda Jane (order clothes with trunk keeper #450) release party at her studio. Not only did the girls get to try on all the new clothes – they had a photo shoot too and I got some great pictures of my girls in the MJ clothing! Anyway – take a close look at the background of the picture and see if anything looks familiar in my new fabrics …

I LOVED all the images she captured of my girls using this backdrop but I couldn’t help but see some fabulous fabric using the paper chain images. I asked Karmen permission to crop out some bits of her photo’s to make some fabric designs which she granted me. I can’t wait to use these great pastel, geometric, chevron-esque printed fabric in a project!

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